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“Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.”

Inspirational Desire Taken Buddhism Extremes Fulfillment Cynical

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our narrow habits of thought and action; we find new elements of our nature called into activity; we are no longer running along a narrow track of selfish habit.”

Ifs Men Helping Running Action Desire Taken Habit Please Activity Elements Track Selfish Selfishness Help Me Thoughts And Actions

Book:Self-culture, lectures

Source: Self-culture, lectures

“The desire to give advice is itself a symptom of disapproval; and further, it is usually the result of a desire to express that disapproval. And we are most moved to give advice to those for whom our affection and regard may be taken for granted, but to whom we would rather express our disapproval. We cannot go to them and say that we disapprove of them. That would not be affectionate, and might lead to reprisals. But we can give them advice in which the disapproval is implied and which yet seems innocently helpful.”

Giving May Seems Might Desire Results Taken Advice Regard Moved Affection Granted Helpful Symptoms Affectionate Taken For Granted Implied Disapproval Reprisal

Author:John William Mackail

“To me, the Craft is what Christianity was 2,000 years ago. It was a religion that was not corrupted. I personally think Jesus was a Crafter. We believe in all the things that he spoke of. The early Christians believed in reincarnation, and that was later removed from the belief system. Early Christians had a female Divinity, and that was taken out of their belief system, or as with Catholicism, replaced with Mary. Look at how incredible the growth in devotion of Mary is. It's amazing. The desire for a female Divinity is not just Wiccan. It speaks of a global need.”

“I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.”

War Desire History Taken Alive Battle Command Civil War American Civil War

Author:Philip Sheridan

“The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and yet never paying heed to the almost audible susurrus of desire- the desire every book has to be taken down and read, to live, to come into being in somebody's mind. He even hands the volumes over the counter, seeks them out in their proper places or returns them there without once realising that a Book is a Person and not a Thing.”

Mind Persons Book Hands Desire Taken Return Down And Library Passing Passings Realising Volume Strict Shelves Heed

Book:The Journal of a Disappointed Man

Source: The Journal of a Disappointed Man

“All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.”

Desire Taken Filmmaker Educate

Author:Jeremy Davies

“They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page of history, every fact in human experience. It has taken the whole power of the civil and canon law to hold woman in the subordinate position which it is said she willingly accepts.”

Source: History of Woman Suffrage ...: 1883-1900

“I often get questioned about how we came up with the name Weebly. We all know that all of the good domain names are already taken, and we had neither the desire nor budget to try and fit our business into a pre-existing word - so we made one up.”

Knows Trying Made Desire Names Taken Fit Budgets Domain Already Taken Domain Names

Author:David Rusenko